Stop iPhone from turning date/time into links

I'm currently sorting out HTML emails on iPhones. My issue is that the date/time text are being transformed into links and copying over styling from the main link colour which is black.

On the footer this looks awful and needs changing. I was able to circumnavigate this issue for phone numbers by wrapping the phone number in an anchor tag and applying a tel: prefix to the href attribute;

href="tel: 123"

That works great, but for time/date, I don't know if there are any and if there is any way to get around this issue at all? I'm testing on an iPhone running iOS 9.2.1 and also Outlook 2013. Any way around this please?

I already tried this. That targets phone numbers, what's being targeted/created is a calendar link and so that rule is ignored entirely. Doesn't work in iOS 9 Mail app.

Well after just trying out various things, I found the answer. Note that using spans and such are not a great idea and in some cases don't work due to the automatic creation of links on certain elements.

A way around it is the apply inline styling to the anchor tag that has the webcal type in the href attribute which formats it appropriately.

<a href="webcal:#" style="color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none;">

Whilst this doesn't stop it from becoming a link, it allows you to make the link the same colour and also have more control over the text.

The date/time detection isn't defined in Apple's developer support docs anyway. Only telephone number is (which can also be overcome by using tel).